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Orlando Furioso

ORLANDO FURIOSO: PART ONE

LUDOVICO ARIOSTO was born in 1474, the son of an official of the Ferrarese court. He first studied law, but later acquired a sound humanistic training. His adult life was spent in the service of the Ferrarese ducal family. Essentially he was a writer; his lifetime’s service as a courtier was a burden imposed on him by economic difficulties. His fame rests on his major work, Orlando Furioso. The poem was probably begun about 1505. It was first published in 1516. The most important of Ariosto’s minor works are five comedies, written for production in the Ferrarese court. Ariosto died in 1533.

BARBARA REYNOLDS was for twenty-two years Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University and subsequently Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham University and Honorary Reader at Warwick. Her first book was a textual reconstruction of the linguistic writings of Alessandro Manzoni. The General Editor of the Cambridge Italian Dictionary, she was created Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 1978. She has been awarded silver medals by the Italian Government and by the Province of Vicenza and the Edmund Gardner Prize for her services to Italian scholarship and to Anglo-Italian cultural relations. She has been Visiting Professor in Italian at the University of California, Berkeley, at Wheaton College, Illinois, at Hope College, Michigan, and at Trinity College, Dublin. Barbara Reynolds has translated Dante’s Paradiso, left unfinished by Dorothy L. Sayers on her death in 1957, and La Vita Nuova, and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, for which she was awarded the Monselice International Literary Prize in 1976, for the Penguin Classics. She is the author of The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante and Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. She is also the editor of The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, in four volumes. She holds three Honorary Doctorates and is the co-founder and managing editor of SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review.

ORLANDO FURIOSO

(THE FRENZY OF ORLANDO)

A Romantic Epic by
Ludovico Ariosto

PART ONE

TRANSLATED
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
BARBARA REYNOLDS

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This translation first published 1973

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INTRODUCTION

I. The Poem

II. The Literary Origins of the Poem

i. Carolingian

ii. Celtic

iii. Classical

iv. Integration of Carolingian, Celtic and Classical Components in the Character of Orlando

III. Ludovico Ariosto and his Times

IV. The Orlando Furioso and English Literature

V. The Translation and its Predecessors